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Show WILLIAM KENNEDY WINS MARATHON BOSTON, April 19. William Kennedy Ken-nedy of New York today won the American Am-erican marathon, the champion long distance running event of the country. Seventy runners from various parts of tho United States, Canada and Greece wore entered and more than 100,000 spectators were gathered along the 25 milo course. Kennedy's timo was two hours, twenty-eight minutes, thirty-seven and one-fifth seconds, approximately seven sev-en minutes behind tho record. Sidney H. Hatch. Chicago, was second sec-ond in two hours, thirty minutes, nineteen nine-teen seconds; Clarence H. Do Mar, Boston, third, in 2:31:05; Hannes Kol-ehmainen, Kol-ehmainen, Brooklyn, N. Y., fourth in 2:31:58. |